1 00:00:06,320 --> 00:00:08,960 Speaker 1: Ron and Nian driving Nissan, then to side to buy 2 00:00:09,000 --> 00:00:25,560 Speaker 1: something else. Nine The Car Doctor. I went right after 3 00:00:25,600 --> 00:00:27,440 Speaker 1: the e g R employed the g R of album 4 00:00:27,440 --> 00:00:30,680 Speaker 1: My problem went away, absolutely, ran perfect, actually ran really good, 5 00:00:30,760 --> 00:00:32,880 Speaker 1: actually ran better at idle than it did with the 6 00:00:33,040 --> 00:00:35,040 Speaker 1: g R valve connected in the GR valve isn't even 7 00:00:35,080 --> 00:00:37,280 Speaker 1: doing anything at idol, or so it seemed in my mind. 8 00:00:37,560 --> 00:00:40,479 Speaker 1: Welcome to the radio home of Ron and Nian the 9 00:00:40,520 --> 00:00:44,920 Speaker 1: Car Doctor, since this is where car owners the world 10 00:00:45,040 --> 00:00:48,920 Speaker 1: over turned to for their definitive opinion on automotive repair. 11 00:00:49,400 --> 00:00:52,199 Speaker 1: If your mechanics giving you a busy signal, pick up 12 00:00:52,200 --> 00:00:55,720 Speaker 1: the phone and call in. The garage doors are open, 13 00:00:55,920 --> 00:00:57,920 Speaker 1: but I am here to take your calls at eight 14 00:00:57,960 --> 00:01:06,559 Speaker 1: five five five six and now he running. Hey, welcome mony, 15 00:01:06,680 --> 00:01:10,000 Speaker 1: need the Card Doctor eight five zero nine nine zero zero. 16 00:01:10,040 --> 00:01:11,959 Speaker 1: Glad to be here with you. This hour is always 17 00:01:11,959 --> 00:01:14,920 Speaker 1: this time, this part of your day, whether it's podcast 18 00:01:15,120 --> 00:01:18,760 Speaker 1: or weekend or however, you're taking this radio show and 19 00:01:18,840 --> 00:01:21,040 Speaker 1: listening to us. And you've got a bunch of options 20 00:01:21,040 --> 00:01:24,200 Speaker 1: and a bunch of choices, uh normal broadcast podcast. 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That's our 35 00:01:59,760 --> 00:02:04,000 Speaker 1: twenty four seven phone number, and you can leave a message. 36 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:06,440 Speaker 1: If we're not on the air, and fast, Harry, our 37 00:02:06,440 --> 00:02:08,800 Speaker 1: executive producer, will call you back and get you in queue. 38 00:02:10,200 --> 00:02:12,840 Speaker 1: The price of a cheaper auto repair Boy, It was 39 00:02:12,880 --> 00:02:15,160 Speaker 1: a heck of a conversation and it was a great subject. 40 00:02:15,160 --> 00:02:18,520 Speaker 1: This week at the shop, Mary new customer came in 41 00:02:18,639 --> 00:02:20,640 Speaker 1: and we talked about this on our Facebook page. As 42 00:02:20,639 --> 00:02:23,000 Speaker 1: a matter of fact, if you're ready for it and 43 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:24,600 Speaker 1: you want to see me in my Halloween costume, you 44 00:02:24,600 --> 00:02:27,040 Speaker 1: can get out to the Car Doctor's Facebook page and 45 00:02:27,480 --> 00:02:29,959 Speaker 1: you can see the video that we shot real from 46 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:32,720 Speaker 1: in the bays that middle of the week Tuesday Wednesday, 47 00:02:32,800 --> 00:02:35,440 Speaker 1: something like that, talking about Mary's car and pointing out 48 00:02:35,480 --> 00:02:38,160 Speaker 1: what is actually bad on a car that she was 49 00:02:38,200 --> 00:02:42,239 Speaker 1: told by her dealer that needed worth of repairs, needed 50 00:02:42,240 --> 00:02:48,800 Speaker 1: a hundred since worth the price of a cheaper repair? 51 00:02:49,760 --> 00:02:53,080 Speaker 1: What price does that come? And that's really what the 52 00:02:53,120 --> 00:02:56,680 Speaker 1: subject of this opening conversation is about. And it amazes me. 53 00:02:56,720 --> 00:02:59,480 Speaker 1: I started to think about it in terms of eating out. 54 00:02:59,480 --> 00:03:00,680 Speaker 1: You ever go out to eat, You ever go to 55 00:03:00,720 --> 00:03:04,240 Speaker 1: a restaurant and you're always looking for where is there 56 00:03:04,240 --> 00:03:08,160 Speaker 1: a good restaurant? And you you find one. I don't 57 00:03:08,160 --> 00:03:10,440 Speaker 1: know too many people the first thought out of their 58 00:03:10,480 --> 00:03:14,440 Speaker 1: mind is how expensive is the restaurant? It's how good 59 00:03:14,520 --> 00:03:16,600 Speaker 1: is the food? We all look at that, we all 60 00:03:16,600 --> 00:03:18,680 Speaker 1: say how good is the food? You know, I get it. 61 00:03:18,720 --> 00:03:20,800 Speaker 1: If it's a fifty dollar hamburger and you're looking for 62 00:03:20,840 --> 00:03:23,600 Speaker 1: a ten, I understand that. But if this guy's ten, 63 00:03:23,720 --> 00:03:27,359 Speaker 1: this guy's fifteen, this guy's eight. The eight dollar guy 64 00:03:27,440 --> 00:03:29,720 Speaker 1: might be the best, hopefully he is, but the fifteen 65 00:03:29,760 --> 00:03:31,960 Speaker 1: dollar guy might really make a heck of a cheeseburger, 66 00:03:31,960 --> 00:03:33,160 Speaker 1: and he might be the guy you just want to 67 00:03:33,200 --> 00:03:35,640 Speaker 1: go to. Is worth the extra five bucks because you 68 00:03:35,680 --> 00:03:38,040 Speaker 1: know that the food never ever ever gives you indigestion. 69 00:03:39,240 --> 00:03:41,000 Speaker 1: And that's really the way you ought to repair is 70 00:03:41,680 --> 00:03:46,520 Speaker 1: you know, the cheaper repair doesn't always beget the better repair. 71 00:03:47,520 --> 00:03:50,080 Speaker 1: So one of the points I want to bring up 72 00:03:50,080 --> 00:03:51,920 Speaker 1: as we kick off this hour the Car Doctor is 73 00:03:52,120 --> 00:03:54,760 Speaker 1: get out to the Facebook page. Look at the conversation 74 00:03:54,960 --> 00:03:57,960 Speaker 1: with about Mary's car and how she went to the 75 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:01,280 Speaker 1: dealer she'd been going to. And I think it's because 76 00:04:01,440 --> 00:04:03,680 Speaker 1: she didn't know what restaurant to pick, she didn't know 77 00:04:03,760 --> 00:04:07,680 Speaker 1: what mechanic to go to, and her parents probably said, 78 00:04:08,760 --> 00:04:10,720 Speaker 1: go ahead, you know, stay with the dealer at to Toyota. 79 00:04:10,760 --> 00:04:13,960 Speaker 1: Let's stay with the Toyota dealer. And she ended up 80 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:18,320 Speaker 1: being told she needed rear breaks, a left front shock absorber, 81 00:04:19,720 --> 00:04:22,560 Speaker 1: and a bunch of other works spark plugs, and I'm 82 00:04:22,560 --> 00:04:25,520 Speaker 1: trying to remember there was one other thing that really 83 00:04:25,560 --> 00:04:28,240 Speaker 1: wasn't needed all a cabin air filter. Yeah, okay, big deal. 84 00:04:28,320 --> 00:04:29,920 Speaker 1: I'm not gonna stop the car. When you're a young 85 00:04:29,960 --> 00:04:31,320 Speaker 1: college kid and you're trying to keep the car on 86 00:04:31,320 --> 00:04:33,080 Speaker 1: the road, at cabin air filter is not gonna stop 87 00:04:33,080 --> 00:04:36,760 Speaker 1: it in its tracks, but the dirty battery terminals would. 88 00:04:36,920 --> 00:04:40,440 Speaker 1: And that's what the dealer missed. And I don't say 89 00:04:40,480 --> 00:04:42,880 Speaker 1: old dealers are bad. I've said this for years and years. 90 00:04:42,880 --> 00:04:44,760 Speaker 1: A repair shop is only as good as the people 91 00:04:44,760 --> 00:04:46,720 Speaker 1: in him and how much they care and how much 92 00:04:46,800 --> 00:04:49,160 Speaker 1: they try to do it right. And the only way 93 00:04:49,200 --> 00:04:51,960 Speaker 1: you're gonna know it. If you base it on cheap, 94 00:04:52,279 --> 00:04:54,640 Speaker 1: you're always gonna get taken advantage of because there's no 95 00:04:54,640 --> 00:04:58,680 Speaker 1: way that repair shop can do everything cheaper. It's all 96 00:04:58,720 --> 00:05:01,280 Speaker 1: about the relationship and how well you know those guys 97 00:05:01,279 --> 00:05:03,880 Speaker 1: and what they're trying to do. Sometimes that fifteen dollar 98 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:08,080 Speaker 1: cheeseburgers the better burger, even if it's the same as 99 00:05:08,120 --> 00:05:10,800 Speaker 1: the ten dollar burger, there may be something better in 100 00:05:10,800 --> 00:05:13,400 Speaker 1: the way they deliver it or take care of it, 101 00:05:13,560 --> 00:05:15,479 Speaker 1: or promise it to you and get it out to 102 00:05:15,520 --> 00:05:17,960 Speaker 1: you on time rather than keeping your waiting, because that 103 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:20,000 Speaker 1: causes stress. And whether you're trying to get your car 104 00:05:20,080 --> 00:05:23,480 Speaker 1: fixed or a cheeseburger in peace, both of them can 105 00:05:23,520 --> 00:05:26,280 Speaker 1: cause problems. Hello and welcome Ronan any in the car 106 00:05:26,360 --> 00:05:29,360 Speaker 1: doctor here at zero nine nine zero zero. The same 107 00:05:29,400 --> 00:05:31,640 Speaker 1: phone number as always to sit and talk to you 108 00:05:31,680 --> 00:05:33,360 Speaker 1: about your car. If you're new to the car doctor, 109 00:05:33,440 --> 00:05:35,720 Speaker 1: welcome aboard. We're glad to have you here, and we 110 00:05:35,800 --> 00:05:37,120 Speaker 1: want to hear from you. We want to know what 111 00:05:37,320 --> 00:05:39,200 Speaker 1: it is going on with your car that makes you nuts. 112 00:05:39,880 --> 00:05:41,040 Speaker 1: And I think a lot of it is you're just 113 00:05:41,120 --> 00:05:43,320 Speaker 1: afraid to ask the question. So don't be afraid. Pick 114 00:05:43,400 --> 00:05:46,279 Speaker 1: up the phone eight five five five zero nine nine 115 00:05:46,560 --> 00:05:49,120 Speaker 1: zero zero down around the bottom of the hour. This hour, 116 00:05:49,560 --> 00:05:53,680 Speaker 1: we're gonna finally, finally, I say it, finally play the 117 00:05:53,920 --> 00:05:57,400 Speaker 1: Butcher Patrick the Eddie Monster interview from the Labor Day Gig, 118 00:05:57,880 --> 00:06:01,680 Speaker 1: and uh, we're gonna be talking about Uh, Eddie's gonna 119 00:06:01,680 --> 00:06:04,000 Speaker 1: be Eddie Butch and I call him Eddie in the interview. 120 00:06:04,040 --> 00:06:06,960 Speaker 1: It's really kind of funny. But Butch Patrick is going 121 00:06:07,040 --> 00:06:09,120 Speaker 1: to be talking to us about his memories of drag 122 00:06:09,240 --> 00:06:11,280 Speaker 1: racing of the sixties. It turns out he is a 123 00:06:11,320 --> 00:06:14,120 Speaker 1: great officionado of where drag racing came from and how 124 00:06:14,160 --> 00:06:17,000 Speaker 1: it got started, and he has a wealth of information 125 00:06:17,080 --> 00:06:18,600 Speaker 1: if you want to talk about the sixties and the 126 00:06:18,720 --> 00:06:22,599 Speaker 1: seventies and drag racing back and it's heyday. Um, Butch 127 00:06:22,720 --> 00:06:24,080 Speaker 1: is the guy to talk to us. So we're gonna 128 00:06:24,080 --> 00:06:26,480 Speaker 1: be playing that for you down around the bottom. But 129 00:06:26,600 --> 00:06:28,280 Speaker 1: right now, let's kick up in the garage doors and 130 00:06:28,360 --> 00:06:30,920 Speaker 1: do what the car doctor does best. Let's go and 131 00:06:31,080 --> 00:06:34,280 Speaker 1: talk to Charles Davenport, Iowa BMW x I and some 132 00:06:34,920 --> 00:06:37,440 Speaker 1: bad vibrations not a good Beach Boys song. Charles, how 133 00:06:37,480 --> 00:06:40,880 Speaker 1: can I help you? Sir? Yes, sir, what's going on? 134 00:06:41,720 --> 00:06:44,280 Speaker 1: You're welcome, really appreciate it. Sure, yeah, this is uh 135 00:06:45,040 --> 00:06:47,520 Speaker 1: you're preaching to the choir and reguard to trying to 136 00:06:47,600 --> 00:06:51,800 Speaker 1: find a good dealer and diagnosed problems. And I've had 137 00:06:51,839 --> 00:06:55,039 Speaker 1: this friend and I've got had my BMW. I bought 138 00:06:55,080 --> 00:06:57,160 Speaker 1: it over in Europe in two thousand three with the 139 00:06:57,200 --> 00:07:01,159 Speaker 1: BMW's European delivery. And I'm like one of these aging 140 00:07:01,200 --> 00:07:04,640 Speaker 1: American males. I have this infatuation with my car, and 141 00:07:05,080 --> 00:07:07,440 Speaker 1: I'd like you to see if you can help me out. 142 00:07:07,720 --> 00:07:10,160 Speaker 1: I'm not having much luck, Charles. I'm your guy. This 143 00:07:10,240 --> 00:07:12,680 Speaker 1: is what I live for. This so um, but I 144 00:07:12,800 --> 00:07:17,200 Speaker 1: like listening to your program. I drive up to Waterloo 145 00:07:17,240 --> 00:07:19,440 Speaker 1: where I work, and and we listened to you on 146 00:07:19,640 --> 00:07:23,000 Speaker 1: k x C L at being forty and but I 147 00:07:23,040 --> 00:07:25,680 Speaker 1: can't get your radio station out here in Downports, so 148 00:07:25,760 --> 00:07:29,560 Speaker 1: I listened to you on the on the computer anyway. UM, 149 00:07:30,120 --> 00:07:32,360 Speaker 1: I love my car. I got two hundred forty thousand 150 00:07:32,400 --> 00:07:35,720 Speaker 1: miles on it. It's this two two thousand three BMW 151 00:07:35,960 --> 00:07:41,600 Speaker 1: three x I six speed and um, about a hundred 152 00:07:41,640 --> 00:07:44,120 Speaker 1: and ten thousand miles. I got this vibration in my car. 153 00:07:45,280 --> 00:07:50,200 Speaker 1: And finally BMW City's probably your your drive train and 154 00:07:50,280 --> 00:07:54,200 Speaker 1: they replaced the rear drive train and that pretty much 155 00:07:54,280 --> 00:07:57,320 Speaker 1: took care of it. But then about twenty tho miles 156 00:07:57,360 --> 00:07:59,840 Speaker 1: ago it started doing it again. But this was the 157 00:08:00,040 --> 00:08:05,280 Speaker 1: friend end and um, and especially uh, I was hilly 158 00:08:05,440 --> 00:08:08,960 Speaker 1: up and down, and as you go up hills, the 159 00:08:09,120 --> 00:08:13,280 Speaker 1: vibration really increases. And certainly if I stepped down the accelerator, 160 00:08:13,400 --> 00:08:15,840 Speaker 1: you will really increase. And as soon as I topped 161 00:08:15,880 --> 00:08:18,880 Speaker 1: the hill, I go down the hill, it's not all 162 00:08:19,000 --> 00:08:23,480 Speaker 1: but it goes away. And when I push in the clutch, 163 00:08:24,440 --> 00:08:28,520 Speaker 1: it goes away. I've had number of people take a 164 00:08:28,560 --> 00:08:32,480 Speaker 1: look at this, and you know, and the BMR dealers 165 00:08:32,559 --> 00:08:37,960 Speaker 1: one dollars just to breathe on the car. But UM, 166 00:08:38,240 --> 00:08:42,360 Speaker 1: I'm not really getting any specifics from people. Excuse me, 167 00:08:43,480 --> 00:08:47,320 Speaker 1: I've got the original clutch on it. Yeah, but I don't. 168 00:08:47,400 --> 00:08:49,040 Speaker 1: I don't think so. You know, if if if the 169 00:08:49,120 --> 00:08:52,000 Speaker 1: clutch were an issue, you'd be talking to me about chatter. 170 00:08:52,160 --> 00:08:55,000 Speaker 1: You'd be talking to me about slipping. You know, A 171 00:08:55,080 --> 00:08:56,959 Speaker 1: clutch is a clutch. I don't care whether it's in 172 00:08:57,280 --> 00:09:01,319 Speaker 1: a BMW, a Chevette, or are a uh, you know, 173 00:09:01,400 --> 00:09:04,079 Speaker 1: a go cart. They're all the same in terms of failure. 174 00:09:04,640 --> 00:09:08,440 Speaker 1: And for it to be a vibration issue, the clutches 175 00:09:08,520 --> 00:09:10,480 Speaker 1: hanging out of the car, it's half on fire and 176 00:09:10,720 --> 00:09:12,560 Speaker 1: you're going, gee, I can't get at the shift anymore. 177 00:09:13,040 --> 00:09:16,920 Speaker 1: So yeah, probably not. You know. The first thing that's 178 00:09:17,000 --> 00:09:20,840 Speaker 1: really common that you know, even though it was just done, 179 00:09:21,120 --> 00:09:23,000 Speaker 1: while it was done a hundred thousand miles ago or 180 00:09:23,040 --> 00:09:25,839 Speaker 1: a hundred twenty thousand miles ago, is I always take 181 00:09:25,840 --> 00:09:27,760 Speaker 1: a look at the rubber couplings. That car does not 182 00:09:27,920 --> 00:09:31,760 Speaker 1: have drive shift you joints that has rubber couplings, and 183 00:09:32,559 --> 00:09:36,160 Speaker 1: they are prone to failure. So, you know, if we 184 00:09:36,320 --> 00:09:39,400 Speaker 1: just want to follow basics the first set, it sounds 185 00:09:39,440 --> 00:09:41,520 Speaker 1: like the first set failed that around a hundred and 186 00:09:41,600 --> 00:09:45,320 Speaker 1: ten thousand miles. Here you are a hundred and twenty 187 00:09:45,360 --> 00:09:48,719 Speaker 1: thousand miles later, and it sounds like you're kind of 188 00:09:48,760 --> 00:09:51,920 Speaker 1: having the same experience. One of the things I'd be 189 00:09:52,040 --> 00:09:56,559 Speaker 1: curious is if you put the parking brake on, and 190 00:09:56,920 --> 00:09:58,760 Speaker 1: I wonder if you you know, it's a stick, so 191 00:09:58,880 --> 00:10:02,120 Speaker 1: it's it's it's it's a little tougher. Is I wonder 192 00:10:02,160 --> 00:10:05,600 Speaker 1: if you could replicated parking break on gently let out 193 00:10:05,679 --> 00:10:08,319 Speaker 1: the clutch a little bit, does the car start to 194 00:10:08,360 --> 00:10:11,959 Speaker 1: pick up a vibration? And then does it feel the 195 00:10:12,040 --> 00:10:14,720 Speaker 1: same in reverse? If we load the engine this way 196 00:10:14,800 --> 00:10:19,319 Speaker 1: then that way? Does it does it change anything? You know? 197 00:10:19,520 --> 00:10:22,920 Speaker 1: It just to me sounds like we're chasing something rubber 198 00:10:23,040 --> 00:10:28,200 Speaker 1: that's flexing under the dynamic of operation, and it's it's 199 00:10:28,240 --> 00:10:31,319 Speaker 1: either rubbing metal or it's not isolating or insulating like 200 00:10:31,400 --> 00:10:38,079 Speaker 1: it's supposed to. Creating the problem relate to acceleration, because 201 00:10:38,120 --> 00:10:41,960 Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, if I keep it um sixties, 202 00:10:43,240 --> 00:10:46,600 Speaker 1: you know, there's vibration, but it's not terrible. But boy, 203 00:10:46,640 --> 00:10:50,200 Speaker 1: if I hit right, or if if you lay into 204 00:10:50,280 --> 00:10:53,679 Speaker 1: it atty and kind of trump on it like you 205 00:10:53,760 --> 00:10:56,840 Speaker 1: did your sixty nine Camaro back in the day, Yeah, 206 00:10:56,920 --> 00:10:59,240 Speaker 1: I know, um believe me, I've been there, done that. 207 00:11:00,520 --> 00:11:03,079 Speaker 1: You know it's yeah, I That's why I'm thinking. You know, 208 00:11:03,520 --> 00:11:04,599 Speaker 1: if you put it up in the air and just 209 00:11:04,679 --> 00:11:07,160 Speaker 1: look at it on a lift, you're you're looking at 210 00:11:07,200 --> 00:11:10,720 Speaker 1: it at rest, you may not see it. And sometimes 211 00:11:10,800 --> 00:11:12,240 Speaker 1: what I start to do in a car like this 212 00:11:12,520 --> 00:11:16,360 Speaker 1: again BMW, Chevette Go Card anything in between, if I 213 00:11:16,520 --> 00:11:18,679 Speaker 1: think there's a place where I've got a contact of 214 00:11:18,840 --> 00:11:21,160 Speaker 1: what I'm not supposed to get metal on Metaller's, I 215 00:11:21,200 --> 00:11:25,920 Speaker 1: will actually start to paint the area, drive it and 216 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:28,080 Speaker 1: then come back and look, did the paint rub off? 217 00:11:28,240 --> 00:11:30,920 Speaker 1: Do I have a shiny spot? And you know it 218 00:11:31,040 --> 00:11:34,240 Speaker 1: kind of gives me a direction. So, you know, I 219 00:11:34,280 --> 00:11:36,160 Speaker 1: even talked to I even talked to one of my 220 00:11:36,280 --> 00:11:38,800 Speaker 1: mechanics about what we could we take one of these 221 00:11:38,840 --> 00:11:42,240 Speaker 1: rentable go pros, and he said, if there was a vibration, 222 00:11:42,440 --> 00:11:45,960 Speaker 1: it can be so tiny that we wouldn't really even right, Yeah, 223 00:11:46,000 --> 00:11:49,160 Speaker 1: you probably wouldn't, you know. So um, first thing I 224 00:11:49,280 --> 00:11:50,800 Speaker 1: do too is or one of the things I would 225 00:11:50,840 --> 00:11:52,600 Speaker 1: do too is sixty miles an hour when you got well, 226 00:11:52,600 --> 00:11:54,040 Speaker 1: you won't get it though. It's not in the tires, 227 00:11:54,280 --> 00:11:56,120 Speaker 1: it's in the it's in the drive train. Charles, It 228 00:11:56,200 --> 00:11:58,760 Speaker 1: really is. So you know, I'm gonna I'm gonna say 229 00:11:58,760 --> 00:12:01,280 Speaker 1: to you to follow those things that I suggested, and 230 00:12:01,640 --> 00:12:04,160 Speaker 1: you know, at least go through a process one step 231 00:12:04,200 --> 00:12:06,200 Speaker 1: at a time and give me a call back nixth 232 00:12:06,240 --> 00:12:07,679 Speaker 1: week or the week after. Limn know how you're making 233 00:12:07,720 --> 00:12:09,160 Speaker 1: out the clock. Gonna take me here. I gotta pull 234 00:12:09,160 --> 00:12:11,000 Speaker 1: over and take a pause, and I don't want to 235 00:12:11,080 --> 00:12:13,599 Speaker 1: rush you, but I gotta go. Um. So let's do 236 00:12:13,679 --> 00:12:16,720 Speaker 1: it like that, and let's just say that we'll talk 237 00:12:16,760 --> 00:12:18,520 Speaker 1: again in a week or two and take it from there. 238 00:12:18,720 --> 00:12:21,599 Speaker 1: Eight zero nine zero zero run a nating of the 239 00:12:21,640 --> 00:12:38,880 Speaker 1: car Doctor. We're back right after this. You we'll get 240 00:12:38,960 --> 00:12:49,240 Speaker 1: into my car. Welcome back when I'm eating the car 241 00:12:49,320 --> 00:12:52,960 Speaker 1: Doctor rolling along here at zero nine nine zero zero. 242 00:12:53,240 --> 00:12:54,839 Speaker 1: Let's get over to the busy phones and let's go 243 00:12:54,920 --> 00:12:58,120 Speaker 1: talk to Bill in Indiana three Chevys ten pick up 244 00:12:58,160 --> 00:13:00,520 Speaker 1: and some questions about the distributor cap. Bill. Welcome to 245 00:13:00,520 --> 00:13:03,640 Speaker 1: the Car Doctor, sir, How can I help? Oh? Thank you, 246 00:13:03,760 --> 00:13:07,480 Speaker 1: thank you. I really enjoy your show and program, and 247 00:13:07,720 --> 00:13:11,040 Speaker 1: I want to change this cap and rotor and line 248 00:13:11,080 --> 00:13:13,240 Speaker 1: of sight. I can only see one the front half 249 00:13:13,280 --> 00:13:15,000 Speaker 1: of it, and I can only see the one screw. 250 00:13:15,200 --> 00:13:17,599 Speaker 1: I can't even get my hand in there to the 251 00:13:17,679 --> 00:13:19,640 Speaker 1: other side to feel. And I know there's that would 252 00:13:19,640 --> 00:13:22,920 Speaker 1: be an easier way than pulling off the intake manifold. Yeah, 253 00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:26,559 Speaker 1: that that wasn't one of GM's better moments. Uh. This 254 00:13:26,679 --> 00:13:28,480 Speaker 1: is the this is the two five iron duke and 255 00:13:28,520 --> 00:13:31,040 Speaker 1: the distributors all the way in the back correct, sort 256 00:13:31,080 --> 00:13:35,559 Speaker 1: of half under the intake. Yeah. I remember this because 257 00:13:35,600 --> 00:13:37,120 Speaker 1: if you look it up going by the book, you 258 00:13:37,200 --> 00:13:38,959 Speaker 1: know you can change that cap in six tenths of 259 00:13:39,000 --> 00:13:41,680 Speaker 1: an hour. Um. You know, in my opinion, you can 260 00:13:41,800 --> 00:13:44,240 Speaker 1: find the distributor cap in about six tenths of an hour. 261 00:13:44,600 --> 00:13:47,920 Speaker 1: Changing It's a whole another story. You know, it's it's 262 00:13:47,960 --> 00:13:50,280 Speaker 1: it's not easy. Let me ask you this because it's 263 00:13:50,320 --> 00:13:52,680 Speaker 1: been a while since i've seen one. If you were 264 00:13:53,080 --> 00:13:55,079 Speaker 1: to raise the vehicle up in the air and look 265 00:13:55,160 --> 00:13:57,439 Speaker 1: at it through the wheel well that's blocking your view, 266 00:13:57,480 --> 00:14:01,760 Speaker 1: would you see the distributor cap? Um, It wouldn't be 267 00:14:01,760 --> 00:14:03,959 Speaker 1: easy to reach through there. I looked in that exhaust 268 00:14:04,080 --> 00:14:06,160 Speaker 1: pipe goes down in there, and if I could get 269 00:14:06,200 --> 00:14:08,000 Speaker 1: in a position, I'm not sure it could been my 270 00:14:08,120 --> 00:14:10,400 Speaker 1: arm I'm not from there. If the wheelhouse was at 271 00:14:10,480 --> 00:14:13,600 Speaker 1: if the wheel well was out. Something about this strikes 272 00:14:13,640 --> 00:14:15,160 Speaker 1: a bell, Like we used to pull the wheel well 273 00:14:15,240 --> 00:14:17,719 Speaker 1: out of the fender liner. Of course, that's when the 274 00:14:17,840 --> 00:14:23,280 Speaker 1: vehicle well, right, if out, pull the fender well out, 275 00:14:23,280 --> 00:14:26,920 Speaker 1: of course. Yeah, that's of course, that's when the vehicles 276 00:14:26,960 --> 00:14:30,040 Speaker 1: were new or newer they weren't. Let's see, this is 277 00:14:30,080 --> 00:14:35,000 Speaker 1: a ninety three. So where are we We're approaching classic? Yeah, well, 278 00:14:35,080 --> 00:14:36,640 Speaker 1: you know, so it was all in some duct table 279 00:14:36,680 --> 00:14:42,800 Speaker 1: fix anything. Uh, you know, changed the guesses Tom, and 280 00:14:42,880 --> 00:14:46,080 Speaker 1: you know, cut through the bed. You know. Listen, sometimes 281 00:14:46,160 --> 00:14:48,880 Speaker 1: buying an older and driving an older vehicle is really 282 00:14:48,960 --> 00:14:53,280 Speaker 1: just modifying it to your taste, like and ease of serviceability, um, 283 00:14:53,400 --> 00:14:57,600 Speaker 1: you know, in the hopes of just you know, and 284 00:14:57,680 --> 00:14:59,600 Speaker 1: I think if you do that, and I think if 285 00:14:59,640 --> 00:15:02,160 Speaker 1: you do you'll be able to reach in and you know, 286 00:15:02,440 --> 00:15:04,520 Speaker 1: I'll tell you what you could do, Bill, if you 287 00:15:04,600 --> 00:15:06,240 Speaker 1: wanted to. If you cut it nice, if you cut 288 00:15:06,280 --> 00:15:08,920 Speaker 1: the wheel well nice with your saws, all just being 289 00:15:09,000 --> 00:15:11,920 Speaker 1: mindful of what's on the other side. If you did that, 290 00:15:12,120 --> 00:15:14,720 Speaker 1: you could you could drill a couple of holes and 291 00:15:15,040 --> 00:15:18,440 Speaker 1: imagine a quarter inch border around the section that you 292 00:15:18,600 --> 00:15:22,000 Speaker 1: cut and put some self tapping screws in. It'll be 293 00:15:22,040 --> 00:15:24,080 Speaker 1: like a little access panel. You could drop it down, 294 00:15:24,680 --> 00:15:26,840 Speaker 1: put it back up, take the cap on, take the 295 00:15:26,920 --> 00:15:29,360 Speaker 1: cap off. You've got your own panel there. Put a 296 00:15:29,440 --> 00:15:33,520 Speaker 1: little beat of you know, like um bead stealer or 297 00:15:33,720 --> 00:15:35,920 Speaker 1: um window calking. Three in makes like you know that 298 00:15:36,080 --> 00:15:39,680 Speaker 1: black rope, black rope window calking, and you can just 299 00:15:39,760 --> 00:15:41,360 Speaker 1: pack it in there as a sealer and it'll just 300 00:15:42,360 --> 00:15:44,800 Speaker 1: you know, it's it's a little overkillersh, but at least 301 00:15:44,840 --> 00:15:46,680 Speaker 1: it looks nice and neat, like the factory would have 302 00:15:46,720 --> 00:15:48,720 Speaker 1: done it if they cared for you to service the 303 00:15:48,800 --> 00:15:52,040 Speaker 1: vehicle properly back then. And that'll work. Now. That does 304 00:15:52,120 --> 00:15:59,600 Speaker 1: not sound a far off, because I can I'm getting 305 00:15:59,600 --> 00:16:01,840 Speaker 1: a lot of coming. Sure the air breather. Is that 306 00:16:01,920 --> 00:16:05,000 Speaker 1: a crack or ring? No, it's just blow by in 307 00:16:05,120 --> 00:16:07,040 Speaker 1: all likelihood, obviously, I'm gonna tell you to take a 308 00:16:07,080 --> 00:16:09,440 Speaker 1: look at PCV and uh, you know, are you are 309 00:16:09,520 --> 00:16:13,680 Speaker 1: you consuming anyway going through any oil consumption? It's tooling 310 00:16:13,800 --> 00:16:18,160 Speaker 1: inside the breather. Okay, you know how many miles are 311 00:16:18,240 --> 00:16:22,920 Speaker 1: on it? Yeah, you know, so it's the rings are 312 00:16:22,920 --> 00:16:25,240 Speaker 1: getting a little tired. It's probably nothing I would want 313 00:16:25,280 --> 00:16:26,480 Speaker 1: to tell you to pull the engine out of I 314 00:16:26,520 --> 00:16:29,760 Speaker 1: would just you know, good quality parts, making sure crank 315 00:16:29,800 --> 00:16:32,240 Speaker 1: case ventilations working like it's supposed to. Let it go, 316 00:16:33,040 --> 00:16:35,400 Speaker 1: all right, sir, Good luck to you. Bill. Let us 317 00:16:35,400 --> 00:16:36,720 Speaker 1: know if we can do anything else for you. We'll 318 00:16:36,720 --> 00:16:38,400 Speaker 1: go from there. Let's go to Philip in Maine two 319 00:16:38,800 --> 00:16:41,200 Speaker 1: eight and Pala and see what's going on here? Phil? 320 00:16:41,280 --> 00:16:43,520 Speaker 1: What's winding here? I hear there's a wine coming out 321 00:16:43,560 --> 00:16:46,360 Speaker 1: of this car? How can I help you? It's more 322 00:16:46,480 --> 00:16:51,120 Speaker 1: than just a wine. It's a real growl. And uh yeah, 323 00:16:51,840 --> 00:16:54,920 Speaker 1: I've I've replaced the thing a couple of times. I'm 324 00:16:55,160 --> 00:16:59,720 Speaker 1: just tearing my hair out of consider my house. Excuse me? 325 00:16:59,760 --> 00:17:01,760 Speaker 1: How you us to consider myself a pretty good mechanic. 326 00:17:01,880 --> 00:17:04,560 Speaker 1: But this one's baffled. Get you get your hands on 327 00:17:04,720 --> 00:17:09,240 Speaker 1: GM bulletin p I C five one one nine C 328 00:17:09,520 --> 00:17:13,200 Speaker 1: is in Charlie, and it talks sure p I C 329 00:17:14,119 --> 00:17:17,200 Speaker 1: five one one nine C as in Charlie. It talks 330 00:17:17,240 --> 00:17:22,520 Speaker 1: about power steering wine at slow vehicle speeds. And you'll 331 00:17:22,560 --> 00:17:24,560 Speaker 1: have put a couple of power steering pumps in this 332 00:17:24,720 --> 00:17:27,960 Speaker 1: I bet, and and you still can't get the wine 333 00:17:28,000 --> 00:17:29,800 Speaker 1: out of it. And you're ready to just go. You 334 00:17:29,880 --> 00:17:31,479 Speaker 1: want to add a story to the house. So when 335 00:17:31,520 --> 00:17:33,119 Speaker 1: you jump, you don't just break your leg. You do 336 00:17:33,200 --> 00:17:35,720 Speaker 1: yourself in and get the pain over with. You know, Yeah, 337 00:17:35,760 --> 00:17:38,360 Speaker 1: you're at that point of frustration. So if you read 338 00:17:38,400 --> 00:17:42,840 Speaker 1: this bulletin, it talks about how the power steering pump 339 00:17:43,320 --> 00:17:47,359 Speaker 1: cap is a special cap with a two way valve 340 00:17:47,680 --> 00:17:51,720 Speaker 1: to control air pressure inside the power steering pump reservoir. 341 00:17:52,560 --> 00:17:55,080 Speaker 1: Oh you know that makes a lot of sense because 342 00:17:55,119 --> 00:17:57,639 Speaker 1: when I when I pull a cap off, I swear 343 00:17:57,720 --> 00:17:59,879 Speaker 1: it feels like this pressure build up on who to 344 00:18:00,040 --> 00:18:02,840 Speaker 1: funk pop. And it talks about problems with the cap, 345 00:18:02,920 --> 00:18:05,920 Speaker 1: and it talks about proper procedure. You know, each time 346 00:18:06,000 --> 00:18:08,560 Speaker 1: you do that pump, you've got to bleed the system 347 00:18:09,080 --> 00:18:12,960 Speaker 1: completely otherwise it's a real problem. So you know, get 348 00:18:13,000 --> 00:18:16,280 Speaker 1: your hands on that, stay on the ground. Please don't jump. 349 00:18:16,400 --> 00:18:18,760 Speaker 1: There's always a solution. It wasn't like that new We 350 00:18:18,880 --> 00:18:21,320 Speaker 1: can always come to a conclusion. And um, if you 351 00:18:21,440 --> 00:18:24,320 Speaker 1: can't find that bulletin by all means, Phil, send me 352 00:18:24,560 --> 00:18:27,200 Speaker 1: an email Ron at car Doctor Show dot com and 353 00:18:27,240 --> 00:18:28,600 Speaker 1: I'll see if I can get a copy out to 354 00:18:28,680 --> 00:18:31,159 Speaker 1: you via the email airways and we'll kind of take 355 00:18:31,200 --> 00:18:33,600 Speaker 1: it from there. Phil enjoyed the conversation. Stomp pulling your 356 00:18:33,640 --> 00:18:35,240 Speaker 1: hair out. Let's see if we can fix it. And 357 00:18:35,480 --> 00:18:37,879 Speaker 1: good luck to you. Coming up next, Pitch Patrick, a 358 00:18:37,960 --> 00:18:40,120 Speaker 1: little bit of a look back at an inside take 359 00:18:40,560 --> 00:18:42,760 Speaker 1: on drag racing from the sixties and the seventies. I'm 360 00:18:42,800 --> 00:19:02,040 Speaker 1: run any of the Car Doctor. We'll return right after this. Ye, hey, 361 00:19:02,720 --> 00:19:05,879 Speaker 1: the Car Doctor. I'm here today at the home of 362 00:19:05,960 --> 00:19:08,680 Speaker 1: dead Man's Curve. The Wild hot Rod Weekend. Is that 363 00:19:08,760 --> 00:19:10,480 Speaker 1: what we're gonna call this, boy, is the Wild hot 364 00:19:10,560 --> 00:19:13,639 Speaker 1: Rod Weekend here in Montville, New Jersey. Um, we're here 365 00:19:13,680 --> 00:19:17,639 Speaker 1: at the Wednesday night party before the Wild Weekend. Uh, 366 00:19:17,760 --> 00:19:20,359 Speaker 1: this Labor Day, and UM I'm here with a very 367 00:19:20,440 --> 00:19:24,120 Speaker 1: special guest that most people are gonna know him by name, 368 00:19:24,160 --> 00:19:26,760 Speaker 1: Butch Patrick. And Butch, it's kind of a thrill to 369 00:19:26,800 --> 00:19:29,080 Speaker 1: be here with you. UM, I've been kind of looking 370 00:19:29,119 --> 00:19:32,359 Speaker 1: forward to this whole week. UMU, and thanks for being 371 00:19:32,400 --> 00:19:34,000 Speaker 1: part of the Car Doctor today, and thanks for being 372 00:19:34,080 --> 00:19:35,919 Speaker 1: here at the Wild hot Rod Party. And if they 373 00:19:35,920 --> 00:19:39,200 Speaker 1: don't recognize Butch Patrick, they'll certainly recognize Eddie Munster. Well yeah, 374 00:19:39,200 --> 00:19:41,840 Speaker 1: and that's and that's that's probably how most people know 375 00:19:42,000 --> 00:19:44,560 Speaker 1: you as right. It's it's it's as Eddie Munster. You know, 376 00:19:44,600 --> 00:19:46,159 Speaker 1: it's great. I have the best of both worlds. I 377 00:19:46,200 --> 00:19:48,639 Speaker 1: can walk around and know he really recognized me. But 378 00:19:48,720 --> 00:19:50,200 Speaker 1: if they ever asked, you know, did you ever do 379 00:19:50,320 --> 00:19:52,960 Speaker 1: anything on TV that that I might remember? You just 380 00:19:53,040 --> 00:19:55,560 Speaker 1: mentioned Eddie Munster and a big smile comes across their face. 381 00:19:56,280 --> 00:19:58,040 Speaker 1: The best of both worlds. So you know, how does 382 00:19:58,119 --> 00:20:01,680 Speaker 1: Eddie Munster get to be this car guy? You know? 383 00:20:01,720 --> 00:20:04,680 Speaker 1: Where's that story? Well? The Munsters for those of those 384 00:20:04,960 --> 00:20:06,720 Speaker 1: those people that don't know where, we were the first 385 00:20:06,760 --> 00:20:09,200 Speaker 1: TV series to ever have hot rods on as the 386 00:20:09,240 --> 00:20:11,720 Speaker 1: family vehicles, the Munster coach and the drag that was 387 00:20:11,720 --> 00:20:14,960 Speaker 1: built by George Barros Uh. They came on there sixty 388 00:20:15,000 --> 00:20:17,639 Speaker 1: five and sixty six, which led to my love affair 389 00:20:17,680 --> 00:20:20,640 Speaker 1: with cars. And on my Wednesdays when I would take 390 00:20:20,680 --> 00:20:22,720 Speaker 1: off from the studio with a long lunch, I would 391 00:20:22,720 --> 00:20:25,760 Speaker 1: go visit George barrass shop and see Sunny and Share, Elvis, 392 00:20:26,160 --> 00:20:28,280 Speaker 1: Frank Sinatra all picking up their custom rides by the 393 00:20:28,359 --> 00:20:31,200 Speaker 1: King of the Customizers. And that's where I started enjoying cars, 394 00:20:31,359 --> 00:20:33,639 Speaker 1: just like just like going down to the corner garage 395 00:20:33,680 --> 00:20:35,200 Speaker 1: and seeing people pick up their cars. It was like 396 00:20:35,280 --> 00:20:37,080 Speaker 1: the normal thing to you. I was very lucky in 397 00:20:37,119 --> 00:20:38,959 Speaker 1: that respect. How old were you when that when all 398 00:20:39,000 --> 00:20:42,239 Speaker 1: this was gone? And and then that was the right 399 00:20:42,320 --> 00:20:46,160 Speaker 1: age because thirteen fourteen found you at the drag strip. 400 00:20:46,200 --> 00:20:48,760 Speaker 1: I'm assuming when I was fifteen, I boarded my Machwan. 401 00:20:48,920 --> 00:20:50,320 Speaker 1: I was going to get a brand new Machuan, and 402 00:20:50,400 --> 00:20:52,720 Speaker 1: before I've ordered it, I was hanging out with Jack Chrispin, 403 00:20:52,800 --> 00:20:55,160 Speaker 1: who invented the funny car and was the first person 404 00:20:55,240 --> 00:20:57,639 Speaker 1: to put a five or last body on a Logi chassis. 405 00:20:57,680 --> 00:21:00,159 Speaker 1: And they said, Jacket's funny looking dragster you got and 406 00:21:00,400 --> 00:21:02,919 Speaker 1: the candle GT one comment became the Machuan and they 407 00:21:03,000 --> 00:21:07,359 Speaker 1: started campaigning with Coca Cola the funny car class. So 408 00:21:07,560 --> 00:21:09,720 Speaker 1: it was great. People now could identify with drag stars. 409 00:21:09,920 --> 00:21:11,640 Speaker 1: If they had Chevy, they like, you know, certain people 410 00:21:11,680 --> 00:21:13,320 Speaker 1: they had a FOURD, if they had Mopark. So I 411 00:21:13,400 --> 00:21:17,320 Speaker 1: was at the drag strip too. And and your knowledge 412 00:21:17,359 --> 00:21:20,600 Speaker 1: of drag racing, everybody tells me is is so extensive. 413 00:21:20,680 --> 00:21:24,119 Speaker 1: And throughout the sixties and the seventies you were at 414 00:21:24,119 --> 00:21:26,000 Speaker 1: the drag strip most of the time. Yeah, I was. 415 00:21:26,480 --> 00:21:28,200 Speaker 1: I was in the heyday of drag racing, when the 416 00:21:28,840 --> 00:21:31,240 Speaker 1: times weren't nearly what they are today, obviously, but back 417 00:21:31,280 --> 00:21:33,760 Speaker 1: when it was really establishing itself in the late sixties 418 00:21:33,760 --> 00:21:35,159 Speaker 1: and early seventies, I spent a lot of time with 419 00:21:35,200 --> 00:21:37,040 Speaker 1: the drag strip beat. What are your memories, I mean, 420 00:21:37,080 --> 00:21:38,720 Speaker 1: what do you remember? What are the first because you 421 00:21:38,800 --> 00:21:41,200 Speaker 1: saw a lot of firsts. I would I wouldn't remember 422 00:21:41,240 --> 00:21:43,359 Speaker 1: hanging out at the Keith Black Shop and getting no 423 00:21:43,440 --> 00:21:47,880 Speaker 1: Don Perdom and Tomas and uh and then my friend 424 00:21:47,960 --> 00:21:49,720 Speaker 1: was very good friend with Danny and Gaias and like 425 00:21:49,880 --> 00:21:53,800 Speaker 1: Larry Rays who drove the Hawaiian Jack was driving Mustang 426 00:21:54,520 --> 00:21:57,160 Speaker 1: just Tyree, Big John Nestmannim I loved. But I loved 427 00:21:57,200 --> 00:21:59,520 Speaker 1: about the sixties and the early seventies was the nicknames 428 00:21:59,560 --> 00:22:02,120 Speaker 1: the drivers had, fast that he Sharpman, Dineld, Don Nicholson, 429 00:22:02,520 --> 00:22:05,800 Speaker 1: Gas Round, Big John, Masmanian jungle gym Lieberman. I mean, 430 00:22:05,880 --> 00:22:08,159 Speaker 1: all these guys were characters and it was really a 431 00:22:08,240 --> 00:22:11,520 Speaker 1: good time to go to the drags. Is drag racing 432 00:22:11,560 --> 00:22:14,760 Speaker 1: today different? Do you still follow it? It's more corporate, 433 00:22:14,960 --> 00:22:16,920 Speaker 1: you know, the characters. I mean, it's still a great 434 00:22:16,920 --> 00:22:19,240 Speaker 1: sport and then you know, John Force actually bought Jack 435 00:22:19,320 --> 00:22:21,360 Speaker 1: chrispmins last funny car when he was seventeen years old. 436 00:22:21,640 --> 00:22:24,159 Speaker 1: But today the cars are a lot faster, they're a 437 00:22:24,160 --> 00:22:26,760 Speaker 1: lot more powerful, they go straighter, but there's not much 438 00:22:26,800 --> 00:22:28,719 Speaker 1: there's not much to driving him anymore that you kind 439 00:22:28,720 --> 00:22:30,880 Speaker 1: of just point him and hold on. In the old days, 440 00:22:30,960 --> 00:22:32,760 Speaker 1: they were squirrely, and they were they were trying to 441 00:22:32,800 --> 00:22:34,320 Speaker 1: work the bugs out, and there was actually more of 442 00:22:34,359 --> 00:22:36,080 Speaker 1: a race because you had seven and a half seconds 443 00:22:36,080 --> 00:22:38,520 Speaker 1: of drag racing, where today there's sub four seconds. About 444 00:22:38,600 --> 00:22:40,520 Speaker 1: three years ago, I was out at Island drag Way 445 00:22:40,560 --> 00:22:43,240 Speaker 1: out here in New Jersey and I met Dinald Don 446 00:22:43,520 --> 00:22:47,119 Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Don Garlits and and super nice guy, and 447 00:22:47,280 --> 00:22:48,760 Speaker 1: he let me sit in the swamp right. He had 448 00:22:48,760 --> 00:22:51,080 Speaker 1: one of the swamp rats there. And I never realized 449 00:22:51,119 --> 00:22:53,600 Speaker 1: that before. But when you sat in that front engine 450 00:22:53,720 --> 00:22:58,040 Speaker 1: drags there, you're vitals were right on the rear end 451 00:22:58,200 --> 00:23:00,439 Speaker 1: that my dragula out there is basically set up as 452 00:23:00,640 --> 00:23:02,440 Speaker 1: like a dragster, and you sit right on top of 453 00:23:02,480 --> 00:23:05,640 Speaker 1: the third member. Yeah, and and if that fails, oh boy, 454 00:23:05,840 --> 00:23:07,480 Speaker 1: it happened to Jack Christmin. He had what he had 455 00:23:07,520 --> 00:23:09,760 Speaker 1: one explode on him and Daniel killed him. He walked 456 00:23:09,760 --> 00:23:11,760 Speaker 1: with a limp afterwards, and they were picking metal out 457 00:23:11,800 --> 00:23:14,959 Speaker 1: of his butt for hours. And I guess we can 458 00:23:15,040 --> 00:23:17,160 Speaker 1: thank Don Garlits for coming up with the rear engine 459 00:23:17,240 --> 00:23:19,359 Speaker 1: drags the cost of cost of half his foot, but 460 00:23:19,400 --> 00:23:21,879 Speaker 1: he came up with it. Yeah, yeah, yeah sure. Do 461 00:23:21,960 --> 00:23:23,800 Speaker 1: you still go to the drag races, Eddie? Yeah? I 462 00:23:24,160 --> 00:23:27,120 Speaker 1: was at the Winternationals recently and I'm calling you, Eddie, 463 00:23:27,160 --> 00:23:32,920 Speaker 1: but it's answer. I noticed that. Yeah, I noticed that. Yeah, yeah, 464 00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:34,560 Speaker 1: it's it's a it's a good time and I still 465 00:23:34,640 --> 00:23:36,760 Speaker 1: enjoy it. Um actually was talking to the guy that 466 00:23:36,800 --> 00:23:38,960 Speaker 1: wrote the Snake in the Mongoose movie the other day 467 00:23:39,320 --> 00:23:41,159 Speaker 1: about doing a movie on Jack Chrispin, because I had 468 00:23:41,160 --> 00:23:43,800 Speaker 1: written a script of years ago called Christmin's Comment and 469 00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:46,399 Speaker 1: about the first family drag racing, because when Jack was 470 00:23:46,480 --> 00:23:48,639 Speaker 1: doing the Saxon Son and the g T and the 471 00:23:48,720 --> 00:23:51,560 Speaker 1: Kendle GT One Comment, his wife would push would drive 472 00:23:51,880 --> 00:23:54,160 Speaker 1: the return car, and his pit crew were his eleven 473 00:23:54,240 --> 00:23:55,840 Speaker 1: year old son and a nine year old son, and 474 00:23:55,880 --> 00:23:58,920 Speaker 1: they were like a family of drag racers. Where does 475 00:24:00,119 --> 00:24:02,960 Speaker 1: Butch go for a car today? Mean, what do you drive? 476 00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:05,040 Speaker 1: Today as an everyday vehicle. And what do you do 477 00:24:05,119 --> 00:24:06,760 Speaker 1: you have? What do you drive for a hot rod? 478 00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:08,119 Speaker 1: You have to have a hot rod. I've got my 479 00:24:08,119 --> 00:24:10,080 Speaker 1: buns to coach my dragular for my hot rods. Now 480 00:24:10,600 --> 00:24:12,919 Speaker 1: that they basically locked me up for the next year 481 00:24:12,920 --> 00:24:14,800 Speaker 1: and a half at home, believe it or not, I 482 00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:19,240 Speaker 1: I drive the Mercedes. That's all right, hey listen, Yeah, 483 00:24:20,280 --> 00:24:24,520 Speaker 1: so they're still there's still that wild So I went right, yeah, um, 484 00:24:25,640 --> 00:24:30,280 Speaker 1: just just crazy stuff. Um, I lost my train of thought, 485 00:24:30,320 --> 00:24:32,080 Speaker 1: to be honest with you. My my other question I 486 00:24:32,119 --> 00:24:34,680 Speaker 1: wanted to before we get away is you've been coming 487 00:24:34,720 --> 00:24:36,639 Speaker 1: to the Wild hot Rod Farm here in Montville for 488 00:24:36,680 --> 00:24:38,760 Speaker 1: a while now eight years Um, you're a member of 489 00:24:38,800 --> 00:24:41,240 Speaker 1: this club. I was a guest. They brought me in 490 00:24:41,280 --> 00:24:43,800 Speaker 1: as a celebrity against eight years ago, and I had 491 00:24:43,840 --> 00:24:45,359 Speaker 1: no idea what I was getting into. I admit him 492 00:24:45,359 --> 00:24:48,600 Speaker 1: at the Boston Autorama, Jeff Bornstein or Jeff Allen, whatever, 493 00:24:48,760 --> 00:24:50,480 Speaker 1: and they invited me to a party and I said, 494 00:24:50,520 --> 00:24:52,600 Speaker 1: you know, sure, sounds like fun. I had no idea 495 00:24:52,640 --> 00:24:53,800 Speaker 1: where there was gonna be a couple of guys with 496 00:24:53,840 --> 00:24:55,880 Speaker 1: a six pack sitting on a cooler in a garage, 497 00:24:56,000 --> 00:24:57,760 Speaker 1: but I pulled up to an eighteen acre farm with 498 00:24:57,880 --> 00:25:01,359 Speaker 1: thousands of cars, huge banner, and uh fell in love 499 00:25:01,400 --> 00:25:03,240 Speaker 1: with the place, and you knew this was it. Oh yeah, 500 00:25:03,280 --> 00:25:05,200 Speaker 1: fellow with the place. And they had me back and 501 00:25:05,280 --> 00:25:07,159 Speaker 1: had me back, and then they presented me with an 502 00:25:07,200 --> 00:25:09,520 Speaker 1: honorary jacket a few years ago. And then when I 503 00:25:09,600 --> 00:25:12,040 Speaker 1: bought the cars, now I have the real actually have 504 00:25:12,200 --> 00:25:14,640 Speaker 1: two world class hot rods, So now I'm a full 505 00:25:14,680 --> 00:25:17,119 Speaker 1: fledged member. Wow. Great, hey, listen, I gotta tell you 506 00:25:17,960 --> 00:25:20,239 Speaker 1: on another note. You know you probably get this at 507 00:25:20,240 --> 00:25:22,480 Speaker 1: the end of every interview, but I still watched The 508 00:25:22,560 --> 00:25:24,800 Speaker 1: Munsters to this day, and uh, you know, it was 509 00:25:24,840 --> 00:25:27,119 Speaker 1: really good about that as kids today are watching it 510 00:25:27,200 --> 00:25:29,560 Speaker 1: with their parents and their grandparents, three generations of fans 511 00:25:29,640 --> 00:25:32,600 Speaker 1: and loving it and the family values thing really really 512 00:25:32,880 --> 00:25:35,960 Speaker 1: really you know speaks animals for the longevity of the show. 513 00:25:36,280 --> 00:25:38,960 Speaker 1: It really is. And I hear, I hear behind the scenes. 514 00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:41,600 Speaker 1: Fred Gwynn was a sweetheart of a guy. Al Lewis 515 00:25:41,920 --> 00:25:44,919 Speaker 1: too funny guys um always cutting up behind the scenes, 516 00:25:45,000 --> 00:25:47,520 Speaker 1: and uh, just just probably real good time, some very 517 00:25:47,600 --> 00:25:49,920 Speaker 1: enjoyable twoyears of my life. Is there some place that 518 00:25:50,119 --> 00:25:52,960 Speaker 1: the listeners can go to find out more about pitch 519 00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:56,120 Speaker 1: Patrick is their website. Where else Munsters dot com, Munsters 520 00:25:56,160 --> 00:25:58,920 Speaker 1: dot com, beans and what is it for dead Man's Curve. 521 00:25:58,960 --> 00:26:03,359 Speaker 1: It's a dead Man's Curve USA dot com I believe, 522 00:26:03,440 --> 00:26:06,479 Speaker 1: and um um, just good stuff. But thanks for being 523 00:26:06,520 --> 00:26:08,080 Speaker 1: part of the Car Doctor today and I'll let you 524 00:26:08,119 --> 00:26:09,760 Speaker 1: get back to the party. I'm running any in the 525 00:26:09,800 --> 00:26:33,359 Speaker 1: Car Doctor, we'll be back right after this. I'm coming on. 526 00:26:41,080 --> 00:26:42,880 Speaker 1: Welcome back. Why don't any in the Car Doctor? Thanks 527 00:26:42,920 --> 00:26:45,840 Speaker 1: again to Butch Patrick for doing that. We cornered him 528 00:26:45,880 --> 00:26:47,800 Speaker 1: at the car show. They're up at dead Man's Curve 529 00:26:47,880 --> 00:26:50,600 Speaker 1: that Wednesday before Labor Day weekend, and he took some 530 00:26:50,720 --> 00:26:52,720 Speaker 1: time out of his schedule and it's just fun talking 531 00:26:52,760 --> 00:26:55,720 Speaker 1: to him. Um, it was, And that could have gone 532 00:26:55,760 --> 00:26:57,720 Speaker 1: on so much longer, but we tried to cut it 533 00:26:57,760 --> 00:27:00,040 Speaker 1: down for the sake of radio, to just give a 534 00:27:00,160 --> 00:27:02,159 Speaker 1: taste of what it's like. And um, if we're there 535 00:27:02,200 --> 00:27:03,800 Speaker 1: next year, and I believe we're gonna be the next year. 536 00:27:03,800 --> 00:27:05,359 Speaker 1: You want to come out and see if at the 537 00:27:05,400 --> 00:27:08,800 Speaker 1: dead Man's Curve party Labor Day weekend and that show 538 00:27:09,280 --> 00:27:12,840 Speaker 1: is um it's a small microcosm of what which was 539 00:27:12,880 --> 00:27:16,000 Speaker 1: talking about in the terms of the car culture and 540 00:27:16,280 --> 00:27:18,200 Speaker 1: what it was in the sixties and the seventies. Let's 541 00:27:18,200 --> 00:27:19,480 Speaker 1: get back to the lines. Let's go over and talk 542 00:27:19,520 --> 00:27:24,600 Speaker 1: to Lynn Hartford, Connecticut, some questions about her two bmw Lynn, 543 00:27:24,680 --> 00:27:26,880 Speaker 1: Welcome to the car doctor. How can I help? Thanks 544 00:27:26,920 --> 00:27:32,480 Speaker 1: a lot n welcome. Question about winterization. So I don't 545 00:27:32,560 --> 00:27:34,840 Speaker 1: drive the car for six months out of the year 546 00:27:35,160 --> 00:27:38,040 Speaker 1: November through April. Okay, so this this is your this 547 00:27:38,200 --> 00:27:41,040 Speaker 1: is your hot rod. I get this. That's right, yeah, exactly. 548 00:27:44,480 --> 00:27:47,840 Speaker 1: So I change the oil, you know, put stabilizer in 549 00:27:47,880 --> 00:27:50,480 Speaker 1: the field system and all that, and then every two 550 00:27:50,520 --> 00:27:53,000 Speaker 1: and a half three weeks, I'll hook up the battery, 551 00:27:53,080 --> 00:27:55,520 Speaker 1: started the car up, let it run for about fifteen 552 00:27:55,560 --> 00:27:58,600 Speaker 1: twenty minutes, then disconnect the battery, put it back and 553 00:27:58,680 --> 00:28:02,000 Speaker 1: that's that. I have been doing that for years as 554 00:28:02,080 --> 00:28:04,440 Speaker 1: just a process, you know, during the six months. And 555 00:28:04,560 --> 00:28:06,960 Speaker 1: now I've read an article that says they don't recommend 556 00:28:07,080 --> 00:28:10,680 Speaker 1: periodically starting the engine, that it will build up condensation 557 00:28:10,880 --> 00:28:13,320 Speaker 1: and then once the system cools back down, but that 558 00:28:13,560 --> 00:28:16,040 Speaker 1: that's a bad thing and it's actually harmful to the vehicle. 559 00:28:16,760 --> 00:28:19,600 Speaker 1: Just wanted to get your opinion on that. Who's they? 560 00:28:20,040 --> 00:28:24,080 Speaker 1: Just out of curiosity? It was a German car magazine. 561 00:28:24,119 --> 00:28:28,280 Speaker 1: I was reading my opinion. I think it's I think 562 00:28:28,320 --> 00:28:29,840 Speaker 1: it's okay doing it the way you're doing it. And 563 00:28:29,880 --> 00:28:32,400 Speaker 1: I'll prove it to you. How many years, how many 564 00:28:32,440 --> 00:28:36,600 Speaker 1: years you've been doing it like this? Yeah? Right, here 565 00:28:36,680 --> 00:28:39,840 Speaker 1: we go again. Let's overcomplicate it. Let's take something that works. 566 00:28:40,560 --> 00:28:44,840 Speaker 1: You know, instead of making the windows roll up by 567 00:28:44,880 --> 00:28:46,680 Speaker 1: turning the handle left to right, let's make them go 568 00:28:46,800 --> 00:28:48,800 Speaker 1: right to left. Just to confuse the heck out of everybody. 569 00:28:48,880 --> 00:28:50,360 Speaker 1: Why not make it that It gives us something to 570 00:28:50,400 --> 00:28:53,280 Speaker 1: talk about a Starbucks? You know, I see nothing wrong 571 00:28:53,360 --> 00:28:56,360 Speaker 1: with what you're doing. When you winter rise it, do 572 00:28:56,600 --> 00:28:59,520 Speaker 1: you do? You? You drive it, change the oil and 573 00:28:59,720 --> 00:29:01,640 Speaker 1: just take it for you know, a quick lap around 574 00:29:01,640 --> 00:29:03,880 Speaker 1: the block, and then put it away with fresh oil. 575 00:29:03,920 --> 00:29:05,680 Speaker 1: And then when you bring it out in the spring, 576 00:29:06,160 --> 00:29:08,840 Speaker 1: do you drain that oil? You know, run it, drain 577 00:29:08,920 --> 00:29:11,800 Speaker 1: that oil and and then start out with your season 578 00:29:12,640 --> 00:29:20,000 Speaker 1: of driving oil, so to speak. That's that's that. Yeah, 579 00:29:20,400 --> 00:29:22,200 Speaker 1: And I can tell you this. You know, this is 580 00:29:22,240 --> 00:29:24,000 Speaker 1: your hot rod. You know what I drive? I drive? 581 00:29:24,080 --> 00:29:26,120 Speaker 1: I drive a black two door fifty five Chevy during 582 00:29:26,160 --> 00:29:28,040 Speaker 1: the summer when I get the time to take it 583 00:29:28,080 --> 00:29:30,240 Speaker 1: out and have some fun. And you know, I can 584 00:29:30,320 --> 00:29:32,960 Speaker 1: tell you about condensation and globs of water in the 585 00:29:33,040 --> 00:29:36,560 Speaker 1: top of this motor. That's you know, it's it's just 586 00:29:36,720 --> 00:29:39,600 Speaker 1: insane how much condensation builds up. But I changed the 587 00:29:39,640 --> 00:29:41,720 Speaker 1: oil and it's been that way for a couple of 588 00:29:41,800 --> 00:29:44,040 Speaker 1: three years now, and I don't anticipate a problem, and 589 00:29:44,720 --> 00:29:48,040 Speaker 1: you know, it's it's it's just as important, or probably 590 00:29:48,160 --> 00:29:51,160 Speaker 1: more important, not even so much for starting it as 591 00:29:51,200 --> 00:29:54,520 Speaker 1: it is to just change the engine's position, get out 592 00:29:54,560 --> 00:29:57,000 Speaker 1: there and hand crank it and just put the pistons 593 00:29:57,040 --> 00:29:59,600 Speaker 1: in a different spot. Now with the hot rock, I'll 594 00:29:59,640 --> 00:30:01,360 Speaker 1: drive the right a little longer. I'm hoping to get 595 00:30:01,400 --> 00:30:02,840 Speaker 1: it out this weekend if it's nice here in the 596 00:30:02,920 --> 00:30:05,640 Speaker 1: Northeast Tomorrow Sunday, and you know, take it up from 597 00:30:05,680 --> 00:30:08,480 Speaker 1: my last Sunday ride until my next last Sunday ride. 598 00:30:08,880 --> 00:30:11,239 Speaker 1: But um, I'll drive it right up through December if 599 00:30:11,240 --> 00:30:13,480 Speaker 1: it's warm enough, until they put the salt down, and 600 00:30:13,640 --> 00:30:17,440 Speaker 1: then i'll have it back out in April, so you know, 601 00:30:17,680 --> 00:30:19,840 Speaker 1: but what I'll do is if I can't, you know, 602 00:30:19,960 --> 00:30:22,600 Speaker 1: find the time the starter I will every three weeks 603 00:30:22,680 --> 00:30:24,440 Speaker 1: walk over put a five eight socket on the front 604 00:30:24,440 --> 00:30:26,320 Speaker 1: of the crank and you know, turn the engine to 605 00:30:26,360 --> 00:30:28,520 Speaker 1: a different position, and that change at tension on valve 606 00:30:28,600 --> 00:30:31,680 Speaker 1: springs and rings, and that's the stuff that I worry about, 607 00:30:31,760 --> 00:30:34,520 Speaker 1: taking a set and etching into cylinder walls and and 608 00:30:34,720 --> 00:30:38,040 Speaker 1: and things like that. But again, either way works, and 609 00:30:38,440 --> 00:30:40,640 Speaker 1: you know we're both doing it the right way, and 610 00:30:41,120 --> 00:30:43,280 Speaker 1: you know, over inflate the tires would be the only 611 00:30:43,320 --> 00:30:46,000 Speaker 1: other comment to you, just so that the tires don't 612 00:30:46,040 --> 00:30:48,640 Speaker 1: take a set. And I'm sure whatever you've been doing again, 613 00:30:48,800 --> 00:30:52,040 Speaker 1: it's been working for umpteen years. One of the things 614 00:30:52,080 --> 00:30:53,960 Speaker 1: I say about reading articles and then we'll move on, 615 00:30:54,520 --> 00:30:56,520 Speaker 1: is I take a look at who wrote it. Do 616 00:30:56,640 --> 00:30:58,840 Speaker 1: they have any valid, you know, data to back it up? 617 00:30:58,920 --> 00:31:01,600 Speaker 1: Can they prove it to me? Or is it just 618 00:31:01,800 --> 00:31:03,920 Speaker 1: what so many things are that we read about today. 619 00:31:03,960 --> 00:31:06,120 Speaker 1: It's here say that somebody overheard at the water cooler 620 00:31:06,400 --> 00:31:08,640 Speaker 1: that they turned into an article to generate a paycheck 621 00:31:08,760 --> 00:31:11,640 Speaker 1: over and they don't have any valid proof to really say, yeah, 622 00:31:11,720 --> 00:31:14,480 Speaker 1: this is real. So if it's working, leave it alone. 623 00:31:14,720 --> 00:31:16,640 Speaker 1: Let's get over and let's go talk to Joseph which 624 00:31:16,920 --> 00:31:19,920 Speaker 1: which you talk Kansas and let's see what's going on here. Joseph, 625 00:31:19,960 --> 00:31:24,560 Speaker 1: Welcome to the car doctor. How can I help doing great? 626 00:31:24,600 --> 00:31:28,160 Speaker 1: What's going on? Well, I have a friend of mine 627 00:31:28,240 --> 00:31:32,440 Speaker 1: who's got a two thousand and fifteen Subaru s T 628 00:31:32,680 --> 00:31:37,320 Speaker 1: I uh. He was wondering if it's normal for a 629 00:31:37,520 --> 00:31:41,680 Speaker 1: car gage cluster to do a needle sweep upon startup. 630 00:31:42,280 --> 00:31:47,680 Speaker 1: Is absolutely and it's it's real simple. When when you 631 00:31:47,720 --> 00:31:49,480 Speaker 1: get up in the morning, Joseph, do you get up, 632 00:31:49,520 --> 00:31:50,880 Speaker 1: set on the edge of the bed and kind of 633 00:31:50,920 --> 00:31:56,640 Speaker 1: stretching you on? Okay, why do you do that? Just 634 00:31:56,760 --> 00:31:58,800 Speaker 1: to help me wake up? Yeah? Help you wake up? 635 00:31:58,880 --> 00:32:01,120 Speaker 1: And you know if when you stretching you and you 636 00:32:01,200 --> 00:32:03,320 Speaker 1: feel something in your right shoulder blade kind of pop, 637 00:32:03,400 --> 00:32:07,840 Speaker 1: you go, oh, and you know something's broke. Right, Well, 638 00:32:08,480 --> 00:32:11,240 Speaker 1: cars do the same thing. It's it's sweeping. Then it's 639 00:32:11,280 --> 00:32:14,680 Speaker 1: sweeping the gauges looking for a bad segment in the 640 00:32:14,800 --> 00:32:18,680 Speaker 1: cluster because if it if it sees a bad segment, 641 00:32:18,840 --> 00:32:22,480 Speaker 1: it will report that or at the very least monitor 642 00:32:22,600 --> 00:32:26,080 Speaker 1: it and maybe come back and report a gauge failure 643 00:32:26,240 --> 00:32:29,640 Speaker 1: or an improper gauge issue or an instrument cluster issue. 644 00:32:30,040 --> 00:32:33,360 Speaker 1: Or a data communication problem. So they're doing that as 645 00:32:33,400 --> 00:32:36,960 Speaker 1: a sweep test, just like its name applause. Are the 646 00:32:37,080 --> 00:32:40,960 Speaker 1: gauges all working? Are all the segments there? Is their continuity? 647 00:32:41,240 --> 00:32:43,480 Speaker 1: Will the gauges be good enough to trust the vehicle 648 00:32:43,560 --> 00:32:46,160 Speaker 1: during its opera? For the vehicle to trust during its operation? 649 00:32:46,520 --> 00:32:49,000 Speaker 1: It's a stretching a yawn, just like you do when 650 00:32:49,040 --> 00:32:51,320 Speaker 1: you sit at the edge of the bed. Joseph, thanks 651 00:32:51,360 --> 00:32:52,800 Speaker 1: for the call, and we're glad to find out that 652 00:32:52,840 --> 00:32:54,760 Speaker 1: we're down there in which you talk Kansas Way and 653 00:32:54,840 --> 00:32:58,720 Speaker 1: we're up on the airwaves zero nine zero. We're on 654 00:32:58,760 --> 00:33:00,520 Speaker 1: a nady in the Card Doctor. We're bad right after 655 00:33:00,640 --> 00:33:29,800 Speaker 1: this love bad night cuts trap and when we will 656 00:33:29,960 --> 00:33:31,880 Speaker 1: want a any in the Car Doctor running along this 657 00:33:32,040 --> 00:33:34,920 Speaker 1: hour at eight five six zero nine nine zero zero. 658 00:33:35,080 --> 00:33:38,280 Speaker 1: That is the Car Doctor seven toll free number eight 659 00:33:38,360 --> 00:33:41,640 Speaker 1: five zero nine nine zero zero. Give us a call, 660 00:33:41,960 --> 00:33:44,200 Speaker 1: leave a message if we're not on the air. 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If 669 00:34:05,720 --> 00:34:07,800 Speaker 1: we're not in the air fast Harry or executive producer 670 00:34:07,920 --> 00:34:09,920 Speaker 1: will talk to you and I'll call you back and 671 00:34:09,960 --> 00:34:11,680 Speaker 1: talk to you and get you up in queue quick 672 00:34:11,680 --> 00:34:13,879 Speaker 1: piece of email. We're gonna do this for Dennis who 673 00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:16,080 Speaker 1: sent me an email request without a phone number, so 674 00:34:16,160 --> 00:34:18,040 Speaker 1: I can't I can't reach out and talk to him 675 00:34:18,080 --> 00:34:20,560 Speaker 1: and uh, you know, get any more information than this run. 676 00:34:20,640 --> 00:34:23,839 Speaker 1: I just had my seventy two Buick Skylark tuned up. 677 00:34:24,840 --> 00:34:26,480 Speaker 1: When I first started and put it in gear, it 678 00:34:26,520 --> 00:34:29,160 Speaker 1: makes a popping noise and stalls. I restarted and let 679 00:34:29,200 --> 00:34:30,759 Speaker 1: it run for a few minutes and it will finally go. 680 00:34:30,880 --> 00:34:33,120 Speaker 1: Once it's warmed up. It runs great. What's causing the 681 00:34:33,160 --> 00:34:36,200 Speaker 1: stalling problems is from Dennis. I'm not sure from where. Uh, 682 00:34:36,360 --> 00:34:38,920 Speaker 1: no idea on an address or a phone number Dennis 683 00:34:39,400 --> 00:34:41,839 Speaker 1: if it just happened since the tune up, and we're 684 00:34:41,840 --> 00:34:44,040 Speaker 1: gonna have to make an assumption here again, No, not 685 00:34:44,160 --> 00:34:47,560 Speaker 1: a lot of information was it plugs points, cap rotor wires, 686 00:34:47,600 --> 00:34:49,480 Speaker 1: which is with a typical tune up on a seventy 687 00:34:49,520 --> 00:34:53,640 Speaker 1: two Buick Skylark. My first thought would be a base 688 00:34:53,760 --> 00:34:59,640 Speaker 1: timing is set wrong. See the mechanical timing, the centrifical 689 00:34:59,680 --> 00:35:03,719 Speaker 1: advance inside the distributor is frozen, and perhaps this car 690 00:35:03,800 --> 00:35:06,240 Speaker 1: set for a while, and now with base timing reset, 691 00:35:06,760 --> 00:35:10,320 Speaker 1: they've actually got the rotor firing between two contacts. So 692 00:35:10,440 --> 00:35:13,240 Speaker 1: when it's cold and the fuel is real heavy and dense, 693 00:35:13,800 --> 00:35:16,080 Speaker 1: it takes a lot of electrical energy to overcome that, 694 00:35:16,600 --> 00:35:18,480 Speaker 1: and it has to struggle until it warms up. When 695 00:35:18,480 --> 00:35:20,560 Speaker 1: the fuel atomize is better when the engine is warm, 696 00:35:20,960 --> 00:35:22,760 Speaker 1: and it makes a difference, and that's why that happens. 697 00:35:22,800 --> 00:35:25,000 Speaker 1: I would tell you to go back and look at points, 698 00:35:25,440 --> 00:35:28,560 Speaker 1: make sure they're gapped properly, and make sure that base 699 00:35:28,680 --> 00:35:31,680 Speaker 1: timing is set properly, and then make sure the vacuum 700 00:35:31,680 --> 00:35:35,239 Speaker 1: advance and the mechanical or the centrifugal advanced portion of 701 00:35:36,000 --> 00:35:39,640 Speaker 1: the distributor is operating as it should. Not a lot 702 00:35:39,680 --> 00:35:41,719 Speaker 1: of people, well, I don't know if anybody remembers that. 703 00:35:41,800 --> 00:35:43,319 Speaker 1: Not a lot of people did it back in the day. 704 00:35:43,840 --> 00:35:46,480 Speaker 1: They just took timing as being set. Because what I 705 00:35:46,520 --> 00:35:50,200 Speaker 1: think is happening here is I think you are firing 706 00:35:50,320 --> 00:35:53,320 Speaker 1: or causing the ignition to fire on the wrong side 707 00:35:53,360 --> 00:35:56,480 Speaker 1: of the contact. In one sense, it's firing late, even 708 00:35:56,520 --> 00:35:59,040 Speaker 1: though it's firing at top, because the mechanical advance is 709 00:35:59,080 --> 00:36:02,320 Speaker 1: altering it. And you're gonna find that by correcting that, 710 00:36:03,160 --> 00:36:05,480 Speaker 1: you're gonna solve the problem. Again, go back over the 711 00:36:05,520 --> 00:36:07,440 Speaker 1: work you did. The part of it was points and 712 00:36:07,719 --> 00:36:10,480 Speaker 1: set in timing. There you go, there's the problem. Hey, 713 00:36:10,680 --> 00:36:12,440 Speaker 1: until the next time I'm running any of the car 714 00:36:12,520 --> 00:36:15,719 Speaker 1: doctor reminding you the mechanics aren't expensive, they're priceless. See 715 00:36:15,800 --> 00:36:15,840 Speaker 1: you